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    The Acreage: Part 1
    The Acreage: Part 1
    The Acreage: Part 1
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    The Acreage: Part 1

    By Gerry Chadwick

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    The Acreage is a place of rehabilitation. Its residents have all suffered trauma and mental illness in their past. But there is something else in the building, from its own past.

    Arabella is a resident and live in caretaker for the building and when a fire breaks out in someones room she has to help everyone evacuate.

    But this is not the first disaster in the sites history and its current residents will have more than flames and smoke to deal with as the chaos unleashes an evil that has been waiting for years be released.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookRix
    Release dateApr 19, 2023
    ISBN9783755439561
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